Boston – MassHousing has awarded $447,671 in grant funding to six nonprofit organizations to help create 12 affordable sober housing units and preserve 31, and to fund supportive services to men, women and families impacted by substance use disorder.
The grants come from the Center for Community Recovery Innovations, Inc. (CCRI), a nonprofit subsidiary corporation of MassHousing that helps nonprofit organizations create or preserve affordable sober housing in Massachusetts for individuals in recovery.
The CCRI grants include:
- Lazarus House, Lawrence, $200,000 – MassHousing grant funds will help create five new and renovate 31 sober housing units for women and their children in Lawrence.
- Power Forward, Inc., Marshfield, $40,000 – Grant funds will help develop software to optimize the organization’s tracking of its sober housing funding for individuals receiving rental assistance scholarships, track new vacancies at sober homes, and advance coordination with several of their long-term sober home partners with the goal of expanding to all Massachusetts Alliance for Sober Housing (MASH) approved sober homes.
- Mental Health Association Inc., Springfield, $108,592 – Grant funding will help create seven new units of affordable sober housing for Department of Mental Health clients in Springfield.
- Gilly’s House Inc., Wrentham, $28,579 – Grant funding will help finance repairs to preserve 11 units of affordable sober housing for men in Wrentham.
- Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute, Boston/Lynn/Springfield, $30,500 – Grant funding will support job readiness and goal setting education and training for women with online aftercare support.
- Dismas Housing of Massachusetts, Inc., Worcester, $40,000 – Grant funding will help the expansion of the BAR None Program, in which volunteer attorneys provide free legal services and referrals and connection to recovery services for men upon release from correctional facilities.
“CCRI serves some of our state’s most vulnerable residents who are working to overcome or are impacted by substance misuse,” said MassHousing CEO, Chrystal Kornegay. “This funding helps mission-based organizations that work every day to help people recover from addiction by providing quality housing in a sober setting with supportive services.”
